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Natasha Gillezeau

July 27, 2024

Scale Investors’ managing partner Samar Mcheileh on how its time for the media to flip the venture capital and gender script

Bad, depressing numbers? Boring. The economic and financial opportunities of investing in women and the products and services they create? Yes please.

July 26, 2024

Tinybeans CEO Zsofi Paterson on what it takes to run a public company

Zsofi Paterson began her journey with Tinybeans as a user of the private family photo sharing platform before stepping up to the CEO plate in July 2023. As one of just 9 percent of women CEOs running an ASX-listed company, Zsofi shares what she’s learned so far on how to transition from running private to public companies.

July 26, 2024

Giant Leap partner Rachel Yang on how diverse investment teams help keep each others’ biases in check

In the venture capital world, having "strong convictions" is often deemed important. But investor Rachel Yang has found that "having more views around the table" allows her team to make better decisions.

July 26, 2024

What’s the deal behind the deals? Only 2-4 per cent of total venture capital goes to women-led companies – and we want to talk about it

BCG research has found that women-led businesses generate 12 per cent higher revenues using an average of a third less capital than their male counterparts. Imagine what female founders - and their teams - would be capable of with the same financial resources as their male peers.

July 10, 2024

Camille Goldstone-Henry on building the Canva of biodiversity

Xylo Systems is a first of its kind software tool for tracking biodiversity. Here, Xylo founder Camille drops some hard-won wisdom four years into her entrepreneurial journey.

June 28, 2024

Jessica Maguire on helping women to reset their nervous systems

In our latest Female Founders instalment, we spoke to Jessica Maguire about pivoting from life as a physiotherapist to building an online education platform that helps students beat burnout.

June 22, 2024

Nina Khoury on what she’s learned about business working at SKIMS

SKIMS, the shapewear brand co-founded by Kim Kardashian, Jens, and Emma Grede, has redefined Spanx for a new generation. In the latest installment of our female founders series, NY-based Nina sheds light on what it’s like to work inside one of the world’s fastest growing consumer brands.

June 13, 2024

New research from Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia highlights the intersection between gender and climate change

A new report from Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) has found that harnessing gender diverse leadership is a powerful and essential opportunity to ensure that Australia's response to climate-related challenges is more equitable and effective.

May 16, 2024

Ambassador Geeta Rao Gupta on advocating for women during times of pushback

Picture this: you're the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues in a post Covid era where climate change looms large, and we're heading into a Biden-Trump Presidential election. Now meet the woman for who this is true: Dr Geeta Rao Gupta.

May 9, 2024

5 Things I Learned from Kirsha Kaechele, the artistic icon behind the Mona Ladies Lounge exhibit

I think - nay, I hope - that I saw my future.
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